Does it creep anyone else out when they hear someone refer to Bush

[JimmyJazz]

as "my president" or "our president?" Did anyone refer to Clinton this way when he was in office? I know I didn't.

I can still hear the slimeball, Sean Insanity asking, "Can't we all just pray for the re-election of our president?"

That gives me the willies for some reason.

[NYC]

1. It creeps me out, too.

I don't remember if anyone referred to Clinton that way. No one in my personal life refers to either of them that way.

[jeff30997]

2. It would be even more kreepy...

If they called him Our Lord and Savior.

[marew]

Absolutely!

Makes me want to lose my cookies. He's disgusting, arrogant, inarticulate, and incredibly STUPID...just like the idiots who voted for him.

[JimmyJazz]

18. you forgot war mongering, power hungry, dry drunk.

:hi:

[unblock]

3. banana republicans refered to him as "not my president"

[Vincardog]

4. I believe it is the PRAY for the BEATITUDE of the Boy God and worship

at the church of Bush? I for none will fight that AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY. viva

[immoderate]

5. Lyndon Johnson: "I'm the only president you've got."

--IMM

[King Coal]

6. The whole propaganda thing is creepy. Nazi-ish.

[Ravenseye]

7. It's brainwashy...

...I know that isn't word but..

The people who now say 'my president' or 'our president' are the same nimrods who said Clinton 'isn't my president!'.

One of them asked my wife if Bush wasn't her president, with a smirk on her face. She responded, "No, see unlike you I can recognize that just because I don't like him or his policies he's still my president."

[JimmyJazz]

12. See - I agree with most of that, but I would have said,

"I don't like him or his policies, but he's still THE president."

[FizzFuzz]

31. you took the words out of my mouth

---er, fingers....

:D

[madinmaryland]

8. I only refer to Bush that way,

when i am referring to him in a snarky way:

"With the great economy (I have been layed off twice since 01) that Our President has created . . . ."

"Thanks to the policies of 'Our President', I'm not sure if I will have there will be social security when I retire."

[craiga86]

9. Just the other day

I heard someone talking about Newt possibly running for president, and then the guy he was talking to said that he would like to see Trent Lott run for President. Now that freaked me out! Typically whenever politics is brought up around this campus I get alittle angry, because most of these people over here are extremly conservative. Thats what you get for going to a Baptists University I guess, but the main thing that makes me mad is they're all hypocrites (You know, pretending to be a man of faith, but supporting anti-Christian values).

[JimmyJazz]

15. I definintely understand people who pretend to have faith, but

support hatred and bigotry - welcome to DU :hi:

[Demit]

10. it's when he constantly refers to himself as the president, or talks

about what "the job of the president is" that really creeps me out. I don't remember other presidents doing that.

[maveric]

11. I view those who say that like those who buy the"National Enquirer".

Not too bright and not to be taken too seriously.

[Benhurst]

13. Yeah, me, too. I just call him "that corrupt asshole." NT

[greyfox]

14. He will NEVER be

MY president... he is a resident of that white house only and I detest his guts....

[JimmyJazz]

16. That's pretty much how I feel about it. But did you think of Clinton

as YOUR president, or THE president?

[Freebird12004]

20. Clinton was THE President

as well as My President

[gtp1976]

22. I always heard THE

as in the president. I've never really heard anyone say "my" President, unless they were using it in the negative. Not my.

[greyfox]

26. I always say

"the president".... MY never occurred to me... but I suppose Clinton would be MY president... I liked him and still do.

[Freebird12004]

17. me too !

:puke:

[Cadence]

19. It's weird when ABC news talks about "The Presidents"

plan on social security and how difficult "The Presidents" job is with all that is happening right now. Like he's actually some deep thinking person with a plan... it feels weird. It would be like if a bunch of psychiatrists were seriously debating Stuart Smalley's ideas on psychology....

[dean_dem]

21. I think it goes along with all the blindly Pro-US rhetoric...

...all the empty references to Freedom or "Patriotism." As in, only true patriots support our fearless leader in his fight for freedom for all.

Ignorance is strength.

[AlCzervik]

23. yes it is creepy, even creppier to me is "Our leader"

i think of him as "Not my president" and when Clinton was in office as "The president"

[JimmyJazz]

27. Ew - I hate that - "Our Leader"

It sounds so fascist

[AlCzervik]

28. yup, and whenever i hear "Homeland security" fatherland pops right into my

head.

[superconnected]

33. me tooo!

and when I hear things like intelligence czar I think dictator with total control.

[flordehinojos]

24. if i recall correctly, very few people referred to bill clinton as "the

president", "our president", or even as, "president clinton". People (even in the news) referred to him mostly as Bill Clinton. He was a populist president--a lot of people felt that he was approachable so "bill clinton", or just "clinton" was as good as it got...then, there were those who hated him and they weren't about to call him "the president", "president clinton", or anything other than Bill Clinton.

[Benhurst]

25. I'm not in that upper one percent of the upper ten percent who

owns this country lock, stock and barrel. So I guess I'll never be able to claim ownership of any politician, certainly not a President and especially not the pResident.

[Is It Fascism Yet]

29. yes it certainly does and I am glad you mentioned that...

Shrub has never been a legitimate president and I have never used the word president in the same sentence with The Son of a Bush. He is not now, nor has he ever been our president. It just drives me wild to hear people call him that, I am always yelling at OReilly or some other talking head on TV, saying.."Stop saying president before you say Bush! He is not president!" It really bothers me most when people like Bill Mahar say "I kid the president" because, firstly, he is not president, and secondly, when I notate his treasons, I, for one, am not kidding. The most disturbing person to ever use the word "president" in conjunction with the four letter word "Bush" was Clinton. Why, oh, why does Clinton call him president? Couldn't Clinton just say "Mr Bush" and call that polite enough? They would have to torture me mercilessly, (which we know IS one of their favorite things to do) before they could get me to call the chimp president, and even then, I wouldn't mean it!

[JimmyJazz]

30. That's an interesting question as to why Clinton refers to him as

President Bush - I don't know enough about presidential etiquette to answer whether or not that's expected, but I'll bet there are others on this board who know whether or not it's required.

[jokerman93]

32. Perhaps

Perhaps it has something to do with the concept that "The Office of the President" itself is separate and supernal to any person who holds that office, and it is to the office that respect is rendered. As a tradition, in order to continue it, it must be honored.

Just guessin'.

[Is It Fascism Yet]

36. nothing in life is required except getting born and dying, all else option

everything is optional, even if it's a tradition, even if it is supposedly "required" he could and should refuse to do it! I do!

[dean_dem]

34. " President" is his official title...

just like any other President. I won't give Smirky the respect by referring to him as that (I won't even say it), but calling him that is like referring to a Doctor as "Doctor" instead of "Mister."

[tom_paine]

35. Der Fuhrer

Unfortunately that appellation is taken.

Though our Kinder and Gentler Nazis have already tried.



(Der Fuhrer is German for "The Leader")

[Love Bug]

37. It's that whole "cult of personality" language

whatever.

[HeatherG.]

39. Yes, it is gross

It sounds so adoring. Bush isn't my posession. I wouldn't want him. Bill Clinton was just Clinton to me, or the president. I never would have called him my president or our president. It just sounds weird.

[mcar]

38. Creeps me out too

I see it in LTTEs here all the time (Florida) and it makes me ill. These were the same "patriots" who vilifed President Clinton and never referred to him in any way but perjorative.

Hypocrites.